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Babylonian captivity
Babylonian captivity in the history of Israel, the period from the fall of Jerusalem (586 BC) to the reconstruction in Palestine of a new Jewish state (after 538 BC). After the capture of the city by the Babylonians some thousands, probably selected for their prosperity and importance, were deporte... Read more
Belteshazzar
Belteshazzar , in the Book of Daniel , Babylonian name of the prophet Daniel. ... Read more
Berossus
Berossus , 3d cent. BC, Babylonian priest-historian; contemporary of Manetho . His work, in Greek, preserved Mesopotamian myths regarding creation and history. It survives in fragments quoted by Josephus and Eusebius of Caesarea. ... Read more
Nebo
Nebo , in the Bible. 1 Town of Moab, near Mt. Pisgah and S of Heshbon. 2 City of Judah of postexilic times. 3 Hebrew name for Babylonian god of knowledge, literature, and agriculture. ... Read more
Akkadian
Akkadian , extinct language belonging to the East Semitic subdivision of the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages (see Afroasiatic languages ). Also called Assyro-Babylonian, Akkadian (or Accadian) was current in ancient Mesopotamia (now Iraq) from about 3000 BC until the time o... Read more
Anu
Anu , ancient sky god of Sumerian origin, worshiped in Babylonian religion. The son of Apsu (the underworld ocean) and Tiamat (primeval chaos), Anu was king of the great triad of gods, which included the earth god Enlil and the water god Ea. ... Read more
Astarte
Astarte , Semitic goddess of fertility and love. She was the most important goddess of the Phoenicians and corresponds to the Babylonian Ishtar and the Greek Aphrodite. She took a dominant place in Middle Eastern religions, and the Jews strictly forbade use of her name. She is referred to in the Bib... Read more
Babylonia
Babylonia , ancient empire of Mesopotamia. The name is sometimes given to the whole civilization of S Mesopotamia, including the states established by the city rulers of Lagash, Akkad (or Agade), Uruk, and Ur in the 3d millennium BC Historically it is limited to the first dynasty of Babylon establis... Read more
Bel and the Dragon
Bel and the Dragon customary name for chapter 14 of the Book of Daniel, a passage included in the Septuagint and the Apocrypha . It was written possibly in the 1st cent. BC as a response to Gentile threat to the Jewish culture and state. The first half recounts the story of the Babylonian idol B... Read more
Ishtar
Ishtar , ancient fertility deity, the most widely worshiped goddess in Babylonian and Assyrian religion. She was worshiped under various names and forms. Most important as a mother goddess and as a goddess of love, Ishtar was the source of all the generative powers in nature and mankind. However, sh... Read more

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Babylonian captivity
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Babylonian captivity in the history...capture of the city by the Babylonians some thousands, probably...commonplace in Assyrian and Babylonian policy. The exiles maintained...which is also called the Babylonian Captivity, see papacy...
Babylonian art
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Babylonian art see Sumerian and Babylonian art .
Sumerian and Babylonian art
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Sumerian and Babylonian art works of art and architecture created by the Sumerian and Babylonian peoples of ancient Mesopotamia , civilizations which had an artistic tradition of remarkable antiquity, variety, and richness. See also Hittite art...
Babylonian religion
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Babylonian religion see Middle Eastern religions .
Babylonian Captivity
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Babylonian Captivity Deportation of the Jews to Babylon , between the capture of Jerusalem in 586 bc by Nebuchadnezzar and the reformation...
Assyro-Babylonian mythology
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Assyro-Babylonian mythology Early mythology of Mesopotamia. It described a cosmic order of heaven, Earth, and an underworld. Some 4000 deities and demons directed the physical and spiritual activities of the world.
Babylonia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Hammurabi (c.1750 BC), and to the Neo-Babylonian period after the fall of the Assyrian...even before he defeated the Elamites. Babylonian cuneiform writing was derived from the...and artisans; and the slaves. The Babylonian religion (see Middle Eastern religions...
Akkadian
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...languages ). Also called Assyro-Babylonian, Akkadian (or Accadian) was...tongue of ancient Assyria , and Babylonian, the language of ancient Babylonia . The history of both Assyrian and Babylonian can be roughly divided into three...
Bible, Occultism in the
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...their land, and surviving during the Babylonian Captivity. As a result, the biblical...and the encounter of Daniel with the Babylonian sorcerers and astrologers. To understand...practices of their neighbors occurred in the Babylonian court where Daniel had found some favor...
Jeremiah
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Assyrians were conquered by the Babylonians. The latter invaded Judea...B.C. A year later the Babylonians destroyed the First Temple...and deported the Jews (the Babylonian Captivity). Many Jews...586 B.C. and with the Babylonian Captivity. His early message...

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Babylonian architecture
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Babylonian architecture. Mesopotamian architecture c. 4000–1250 BC...staircases giving access to the sanctuary on top. The main characteristics of Babylonian architecture were absorbed by the Assyrians near the end of the second...
Exile, Babylonian
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Exile, Babylonian. Exile of the Jews in Babylon in the 6th cent. BCE. From this experience and history derives the phrase, ‘a Babylonian exile’, to describe other periods of exile from a home circumstance. See also DIASPORA and GALUT .
Babylonian Talmud
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Babylonian Talmud (Jewish authoritative development of Mishnah): see TALMUD .
Babylonian captivity
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Babylonian captivity. Period (586–538 BCE) during which many Israelites were held in exile in Babylon. The phrase was applied by Petrarch to the Church during the period when the papacy was at Avignon (1309–77): see ANTIPOPE .
Jeremiah
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...afterwards Judah became a Babylonian province. Jeremiah...relationship with the Babylonians. But King Jehoiakim...withheld tribute; the Babylonians marched (Jer. 37–9). When the Babylonians were outside the gates...
Jewish Diaspora
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...sacking of Jerusalem by the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar in 586...Hebrew kingdom of Judah, the Babylonians exiled the Jewish elite to...it was only during the Babylonian captivity that Jews developed...Jerusalem. It was during the Babylonian exile that scholarly debates...
Cosmology and Astronomy
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...were often intertwined. Babylonian Cosmology Elimination of...mathematical computation from Babylonian astronomical texts of the...science and cosmology. Ancient Babylonians studied how the celestial...Consequently, some scholars dismiss Babylonian cosmology and astronomy as...
Baruch
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...contained advice to submit to the Babylonians. But the words were written...that after the Chaldeans (Babylonians) had gone, fields would...After the siege and the Babylonian victory, Jeremiah and Baruch...taken by a group of anti-Babylonian conspirators to Egypt (586...
Judah
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...Assyrians being assaulted by the rising babylonians (2 Kgs. 23: 29). After the Babylonians defeated the Egyptians at Carchemish in...Jehoiakim rebelled and Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians in March 597 BCE. The deportation of leading...
Exile, the
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...Judah, lying between them. After the Babylonian victory at Carchemish in 605 BCE and...against the advice of Jeremiah. The Babylonians marched; Jerusalem surrendered (2...years later the capital fell to the Babylonians, and there was massive destruction...

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Who Were the Babylonians?
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The Neo-Babylonian Empire and Babylon in the Latter Prophets. .(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...the phenomenon of Babylonian imperialism in...determine how the Babylonians conceived of and...rule. From the Babylonian royal inscriptions...Rather, the Babylonians emphasized that...any evidence of Babylonian imperial practices...chapters is that the Babylonians practiced a ...
LEGACY OF A CIVILIZATION.(Babylonian civilization)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 11/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...declared one early Babylonian tablet. By 700...however, Babylonians scanning the...accuracy. The Babylonians' precise records...MEDICAL SCIENCE Babylonian achievements...medical science. Babylonians traditionally...
The Babylonian Theory of the Planets.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; The Babylonian Theory of the...discovery that the Babylonians not only watched...operation of the Babylonian mathematical astronomy...available to the Babylonian astronomers...was the way the Babylonians derived the parameters...
The Neo-Babylonian Empire and Babylon in the Latter Prophets
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...concludes that even though the Babylonian kings tried to formulate...It seems that the Neo-Babylonian empire's oversight of the...minimal. It is true that "the Babylonians did make periodic, at first...contemporary with the Neo-Babylonian empire. V assumes that the...
Babylonian Collection Celebrates Centennial.
M2 Presswire; 11/6/2009; 700+ words ; ...Haven, Conn. - The Yale Babylonian Collection will celebrate...discoveries made in the Yale Babylonian Collection over the past...speakers are "Yale and the Babylonians, 1909" by Benjamin Foster...Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature, chair of NELC...
A COMMON SOURCE FOR THE LATE BABYLONIAN CHRONICLES DEALING WITH THE EIGHTH AND SEVENTH CENTURIES.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; The nature of the sources of the Babylonian chronicles remains a matter of controversy...sought "common source" of the late Babylonian chronicles dealing with the eighth and...finding the possible Julian equivalents of Babylonian dates. A reanalysis of New Year's...
Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period.(Book review)
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The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem: Judah under Babylonian Rule
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BABYLONIAN DIPLOMACY IN THE AMARNA LETTERS.(bibliography included)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...humiliating concessions. The Babylonian dispatches are regarded as...position with Egypt, the Babylonian kings might sometimes give...a close analysis of the Babylonian arguments reveals a cunning...mordant sense of humor. The Babylonians used the cultural conventions...